A Connecticut judge on Friday dismissed criminal charges against three current and former New Haven police officers who were accused of mistreating prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van in 2022. Judge David Zagaja dropped the cases against Oscar Diaz, Jocelyn Lavandier and Luis Rivera after granting...
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Indian Man Pleads Guilty In Assassination Plot Against Prominent Sikh Separatist Leader In New York
A man from India admitted Friday that he conspired to hire a hitman to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City, prompting a top federal prosecutor to warn anyone abroad against plotting to kill Americans in the United States. “Our message to nefarious foreign actors should be clear: steer clear of...
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Brazilian Au Pair Gets 10-Year Sentence For Killing Joseph Ryan In Murder Plot Against Lover’s Wife
An au pair who schemed with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man received a 10-year prison sentence on Friday. Prosecutors had recommended Juliana Peres Magalhães walk free after she pleaded guilty to a downgraded manslaughter charge in the February 2023 killing of Joseph Ryan. Instead of being tried for second-degree murder, she...
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Shooting At South Carolina State University Residence Complex Kills 2 And Wounds 1
Two people are dead and one person wounded after a shooting at a South Carolina State University residential complex, the university said Thursday. University officials have not confirmed the victims’ identities or the condition of the person wounded, the school said in a news release. The school put the campus in Orangeburg on lockdown at...
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Prosecutors Move To Dismiss Charges Against Men Accused Of Hitting ICE Officer With Broom And Shovel
Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis have moved to drop felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg by a immigration officer, after new evidence emerged undercutting the government’s version of events. In a filing Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota said “newly discovered evidence” in the criminal...
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Palestinian Protester, Detained For Nearly A Year, Says ‘Inhumane’ Jail Conditions Prompted Seizure
A Palestinian woman who has been held in an immigration jail for nearly a year after she attended a protest in New York City said she suffered a seizure after fainting and hitting her head last week, an episode she linked to “filthy” and “inhumane” conditions inside the privately run detention facility. Leqaa Kordia, 33,...
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Judge Says US Must Help Bring Back Some Of The Venezuelans Deported To Notorious Prison
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some of the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador to return to the U.S. at the government’s expense. The case has been a legal flashpoint in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. It started in March after President...
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Judge Dismisses California Deportation Case For Mexican Father Of 3 US Marines
An immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against a landscaper who was arrested in Southern California last year, and the father of three U.S. Marines is now on a path toward legal permanent residency in the U.S. The June detention of Narciso Barranco, who came to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1990s but...
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2 Teens Charged With Attempted Murder For Allegedly Plotting Mass Shooting At Indiana High School
Authorities have charged two teenagers with attempted murder and conspiracy for allegedly plotting to stage a shooting at a central Indiana school that one of the teens attended. Alexis Pickett, a student Morristown High School in Shelbyville, Indiana, and Melanie Little of Corinth, Mississippi, both 17, are charged as adults in an alleged crime planned...
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Brazilian Au Pair Faces Sentencing In Scheme To Kill Lover’s Wife And Another Man
An au pair who pleaded guilty to scheming with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man said she confessed because she wanted to do good — not out of hope that cooperating would free her from a Virginia jail so she could return home to Brazil. On Friday, a judge will determine her...